Badger Quilt Modifications

Here is the pattern of the Badger Quilt as published.  It's a 2-color quilt, and a holiday quilt pattern.  The fabrics I have been given are red, gray, and a yard of a Wisconsin Badgers graphic print.  My friend wants the Bucky Badger pictures centered in each of the 12 white stars of a twin sized quilt.  There will be 20 blocks, each 16" finished, in a 4 x 5 layout.  Originally, each block would look like this:

However, I need to center a Bucky in each gray star.  Instead of simply cutting one 5.5" gray square, I had to fussy cut 20 Buckies.  This wasted a lot of fabric because I had to cut into each of the surrounding pictures for the seam allowances.  I framed them in red, each frame only about 3/8 inch wide,  then framed them again in gray and squared them up at a mere 3.5"--3" finished:

 

This results in a very small unit.  A lot of work for such a small unit! At least that is the only modifications I need to do.  I can go back to the regular (boring) pattern now.  I may try to jazz it up somehow.  Or maybe not.  Just get it done so I can move on to more fabulous things! Modifications are time consuming!

I made one block center to see how it looks.  Flying geese units, and red squares complete the center of the star:  I still need to put on the star points to finish the block but here it is so far:

I'm going to chain piece these now, hopefully it'll go fast.